fag
1Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a gay man.
Offensive. a contemptible or dislikable person.
Origin of fag
1usage alert For fag
Other words from fag
- fag·gish, adjective
Words Nearby fag
Other definitions for fag (2 of 2)
to tire or weary by labor; exhaust (often followed by out): The long climb fagged us out.
British. to require (a younger public-school pupil) to do menial chores.
Nautical. to fray or unlay the end of (a rope).
Chiefly British. to work until wearied; work hard: to fag away at French.
British Informal. to do menial chores for an older public-school pupil.
Origin of fag
2Other words from fag
- un·fagged, adjective
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How to use fag in a sentence
Again it is fag-pie Sunday, from another refection sacred to it in the same county, namely a pie of figs and spices.
Curious Church Customs | Variousfag Alley was reached and in its vicinity several machine guns were captured, and the teams either killed or taken prisoners.
The Story of the "9th King's" in France | Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts"fag wanted," Sinclair murmured, hardly looking up from his imposition.
Sonia Between two Worlds | Stephen McKennafag, a schoolboy who performs a servants offices to a superior schoolmate.
The Slang Dictionary | John Camden HottenLucy returned to the stage for her scenes in the second act (the last in which she appears) with Sir Lucius and fag.
No Name | Wilkie Collins
British Dictionary definitions for fag (1 of 3)
/ (fæɡ) /
informal a boring or wearisome task: it's a fag having to walk all that way
British (esp formerly) a young public school boy who performs menial chores for an older boy or prefect
(when tr, often foll by out) informal to become or cause to become exhausted by hard toil or work
(usually intr) British to do or cause to do menial chores in a public school: Brown fags for Lee
Origin of fag
1British Dictionary definitions for fag (2 of 3)
/ (fæɡ) /
British a slang word for cigarette
a fag end, as of cloth
Origin of fag
2British Dictionary definitions for fag (3 of 3)
/ (fæɡ) /
slang, mainly US and Canadian short for faggot 2
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